davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

SERGEANT BALLANTINE, the great En-
glish lawyer died on the 9th.
PATRICK POWERS was killed on the 9th
by a dynamite explosion in Philadelphia
Two young lady art students and ayoung
man were suffocated by gas in their hotel
in Rome on the night of the Sth, 1t was
case of deliberate suicide.
SENATOR EvARTs is to make great
speech against the Inter State Commerce
bill this week.
NJ. ZANKoFF has gone from Sofia to Con
stantinople to explain the Bulgarian sltua'
ton to the Sultan.
Ex-DIsTRICT-ATToRN BLISS Tor inc
Eastern district of Missouri has brought
suit in the Court of Claims for f3,l15 dis
allowed fee bills.
THE accidental discharge of pistol in
the hands of John Halstrumb IN New
York killed his siX-yearold daughter.
THREE fine business buildings were de-
stroyed by fire at Hartford, Conn, on the
9th Thomas r. LaughtOn persisted in the
flames
A COLLISION on the Wilmington q
Northern railroad in Pennsylvania, on the
9th, resulted in the death of o conductor
! and passenger
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15
XLIXTH CONGRESS.

Tn the Senate on the 9th a number OF papers
on various subjects were presented by tne pre-
siding officer. bill was reported ana lalu over
granting pension of 5000 year to the WHO"
of General John A. Logan. Resolutions "ere
offered calling for information; one, as 10 the
indebtedness OF the Pacific railroad companies,
creating lively discussion. The conference
report on the Interstate Commerce Dill was
taken up......I In the House the Dill LOT perHia
nent improvement OF the Erie and OsWeBo ca
nails was called up and debated. The indian
Appropriation bill was passed, as was also the
Military Academy Appropriation DID
In the Senate on the 9th number of memo
rails were introduced, some in favor. some OPP
posing, the Inter State Commerce bill. A Dill
was introduced for relief of the heirs Of Captain
Crawford, who was killed by the Mexicans. A
resolution was passed calling for the report OF
the Board of Engineers on the st. Louis bridge.
The Pacific railroad indebtedness was con-
sidered. The bill passed giving Mrs. Mary
S. Logan, widow OF General John A.
Logan, a pension Of $1,000 a year The pension
OF the widow of General Frank p. Blair was
raised from fifty dollars month to 1900 a
| year In the House the question of canal
| improvement was discussed. The Pension APP
preparation bill was passed. The Naval Re
| organization bill was discussed in committee Of
! IN the Senate on the 18th remonstrances
against, and petitions in favor of the Interstate
| Commerce bill were presented. A number OF
| bills on the private calendar were passed, the
| Interstate Commerce bill was laid over until
the 10th. The bill for a school of instruction for
cavalry and light infantry at Fort Riley, Kas.,
| was amended and passed. Two relief bills
were passed. Adjourned until the 10th. In the
! House the Senate bill amending the act proyid
| ing for the sale of the Sac and Fox, and Iowa In
! dian reservation in Nebraska and Kansas was
! passed. After an unsuccessful effort by Mr.
! Hatch MOI to resume consideration OF the bill
! creating a department OF agriculture, the
! House went into committee of the whole on
the private calendar. Several private bills
were passed, and at the night session mum
| her OF pension bills were passed.
THE Senate was not in session on the Sth...
! I the House several bills were reported from
committees and referred The bill appropriate
ing &O0,0OO for a new public building at Charles
ton S. c., after debate, went over without ac'
ton. The bill consolidating certain bureaus OF
| the Navy Department was debated at length in
committee of the whole. The RiyR and Har
| Dor bill was reported
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

DR.. WIN. PERRY, the sole survivor of the
passengers of Robert Fulton's first steam
boat ride down the Hudson, died on the
18th, centenarian.
AN agent of European capitalists on the
18th paid into the State Treasury of Texas
Sl47, 900 in payment for lands purchased
from the State.
PARTIES from Iowa on the 18th purchased
5000 acres of land in Tallahatchie county,
Miss.
The Virginia tobacco crop OF 1886, it is
estimated, weighs out only half a crop,
and only oue-fourth of that has the color
Of good tobacco.
by the Legislature OF Tennessee on the
10th.
JouN ROACH, the great ship. builder
lied at New York on the 10Th.
L. c. DULANEY, a merchant and levee
contractor, was assassinated near Rose
dale, Miss, on the Sth,
IT is reported that work on the Kansas
City road east of Tupclo, Miss, has Seen
stopped; that the road Las purchased the
Georgia Pacific from Columbus to Bir-
mingham, and that the intention is to
build the Kansas City road, via Pontoioc,
Okolona and Aberdeen to Columbus.
A DISASTROUS shipwreck occurred on the
Virginia coast on the Sth. Not less than
twenty, aud probably more, lives were
lost, among them five lfe-saving men,
who in the discharge Of their duty were
drowned.
THE total appropriation made by the
river and harbor bill is S7,5G6,3j0, in
GLIDING an appropriation of 100000 ior
the improvement of the Arkansas river
a BILL 20 reduce internal revenue taxa
! ton a.d duties on raw sugar and for other
purposes was introduced in the House on
the NJa by Mr.. Hiscock, of New York.
A SEARCH Of the house, in Philadelphia
where the two old misers, Joseph Perry
and Richard Price, We're found lying dead
ON the 9TH, brought to light hidden treas
ure amounting to 100000.
THE Arkansas State Assembly of the
Knights Of Labor closed five days. ses
sion at Pine Bluff on the Sth.
SAM HALL, one of the highwaymen wLC
assaulted Ridenor in backyard at Knox
vile, Tenn, several nights since, anC
robbed him Of 1916 and almost murdered
him, was arrested on the Sth in Wood
bury, Ky.
AT meeting Of. manufacturers, mer
chants and business men, assembled a
Nashville, Tenn, on the Sth, resolutions
were passed opposing the passage of th'
interstate commerce bill now pending il
/ Congress.
The Adjgtant General of Texas il
alarmed about the Knights Of Labor, anC
wants the militia increased.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

Acting SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
MULDRow has disbarred Joseph NJ Wal
lace, Of Rapid City, Oak, from practicing
as an attorney before the Interior Depart
ment or any of its bureaus and local land
Offices
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT JAMESON of
the railway mail service has received in
formation that fourteen pouches Of letter
mail and about truck load of paper mail
were burned in the recent wreck at Tiff
fin, O.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

CONSIDERABLE comment has been occa-
stoned in Washington by published re-
ports that a ''slush fund" Of $1,000, 900 has
been distributed where it would do the
most good in the interest of Pacific rail.
road legislation.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

JAMES EDWARD NowLIN, the perpetrator
of the horrible murder of Geo. A. Goldman,
was arraigned in the Somersville (Mass,)
police court on the 18th, and pleaded not
guilty. He was committed without bail
for trial.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

THE French Academy has resolved to pc
tition the government to revoke the de-
cree etpelling the Due d'Aumale, on the
ground that he proved his patriotism by
his gift to France of the Chantilly estates
A favorable reply is expected.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

A CLOSE friend of DR.. McGlynn says that
he is informed by letter from Rome that,
as a solution of the McGlynn matter,
which attracts unprecedented interest in
church circles there, the doctor will pro ba-
bly, be offered the presidency Of the
American College in Rome.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

AT Edinburgh the Marchioness Of
Queensbury has begun suit for divorce
against her husband, the Marquis of
Queensbury, whose rules she has become
tired Of
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

AT New Haven, Conn, on the 9Th, Judge
Pickett fined two railroad officials for
blacklisting a man.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

Hon. F. M. CocKRELL was renominated
for United States Senator from Missouri
on the 9th by the Democratic caucus at
Jefferson City.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

THE Second Comptroller has decided tina t
an enlisted soldier discharged before the
expiration of his term, because of disa.
bility resulting from sunstroEe, is enti-
tied to bounty the same as if the disability
was the result Of a wound.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

IT is stated that the Russian Govern
ment has made proposals which are cal
culated to peacefully solve the Bulgarian
difficulty
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

THE gift of drinking fountain to STRAIT
fori-on-Avon by Mr.. George W. Childs, of
Philadelphia, is pleasantly commented
upon by the London Daily Telegraph as san
act Of graceful munifcence.n
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

CROWDS Of unemployed workmen as
sembled in front of the offices of the Local
Government Board at London on the 18th,
and demanded relief.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

MRS. CLEVELAND held her first public
reception Of the season at the White House
On the 9Th, which was largely attended
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

The Vienna correspondence of the London
Times contradicts the statement that an
alliance has been entered into between
Russia and Germany.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.

GERMANS in Belgium are ordered to be
ready to take their places in the army on
short notice.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

The French Minister Of Foreign Affairs
mas "unoficially' recommended the &C
ceptance by Bulgaria of the Prince of Min
Yrelia.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

The total appropriation made by the
River and Harbor bill, as reported to the
House Of Representatives on the Sth, is ST.
S66,250
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

MRS CLEVELAND will give luncheon
On the 18th at half-past one o'clock to
about thirty young ladies of Washington.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

SOME miscreant exploded dynamite on
the cable road at San Francisco, doing
considerable damage and creating wide
spread CONSERVATION.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

A BRONZE monument erected to the
memory Of King Victor Emanuel was I'M
Veiled on the 9th in the Pantheon at Rome,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

A WASHINGTON dispatch states that
Representative Farquhar, on the part of
the Printers Union, is opposing the con-
firmation of Public Printer Benedict, and
that the opposition is based entirely upon
the ground that Mr.. Benedict is not a
practical printer.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

THE President has approved the new
rules which were submitted to him by the
Civil-Service Commissioners, under which
clerks of all the lower grades in the New
York custom. house will be eligible to
competition for promotion to the higher
grades
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

AMONG the petitions and memorials pre-
scented to the United States Senate on the
9Th were quite number praying for an
appropriation, and in some cases asking
the definite sum of 500, to enable colored
citizens to emigrate TO Liberia.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

BRavET BRIGADIER-GENER THOMAS
DUNCAN died at Washington, on the sth,
after a brief illness. He had lived for
more than twenty years with a silver plate
forming portion Of his skull which was
fractured by a cannon ball during the war
of the rebellion.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15

IL the last volume of reports of United
States Supreme Court decisions, just is
sued, there appears as an appendix, the
last formal paper prepared by Chief
Justice fancy as an opinion of the conrt,
but which was not delivered by reason Of
his death.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-05-06

Leaving the carriage, writes cor
respondent Of the Baltimore Sun. we
started out for a walk through the
streets, which present an aspect very
different from those of cities in India
Europeans, Cingalese, Tamils and
Moormen all mingle together in APP
parent concord, and each race could
easily be distinguished by manner of
dress from the others. The male Gin
galese is walking curiosity in the
matter Of dress. In the place Of
trousers he wears rectangular piece
Of figured stuff wrapped around his
legs from his waist to his ankles
wrapped so tight as TO make it impos-
sible for him TO take any but short,
mincing steps. With this he also
wears short, neat jacket of dark
cloth. His hair, which is long and of
glossy black, he wears combed
straight back and rolled up into a tight
roll on the back Of his head, with this
roll kept IN place by large, high tor
toise. shell comb. As general rule he
also wears earrings, and, if he is young,
IL is not an uncommon thing for stran.
gers to mistake him for a woman.
Their women dress much in the same
style, with the exception of the jackets.
and it is often difficult TO distinguish
between the sexes.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-05-06
Being a Boy,

There is nothing in the world of
which a boy is so proud as of the fact
that be is boy. He doesn't despise
girls, but he pities them heartily. No
one has better told the story of boy
hood than Charles Dudley Warner.
You will all own the truth of what he
says:
One of the best things in the world
to be is boy. IT requires no expert
ence, though it needs some practice to
be good one. The disadvantage of
the position is that it does not last long
enough. 1t is soon over. Just as you
get used to being boy, you have TO
be something else, with good deal
more work to do. and not half so much
fun. And yet every boy is anxious to
be man, and is very uneasy with the
restrictions that are put upon him as a
boy.
There are so many bright spots 10
the life OF farm boy that sometimes
think I should like TO live the life over
again. l should almost be willing to
be a girl if it were not for the chores.
There is great comfort to boy in
the amount of work he can get rid of
doing. 1t is sometimes astonishing
how slow he can go on an errand.
Perhaps he couldn't explain himself
Why, when he is sent to a neighbor's
after yeast, he stops to stone the frogs.
He is not exactly cruel, but be wants
to see If be can bit 'em. 1t is a Curl
GUS fact about boys that two will be
great deal slower in doing anything
than one. Boys have great power
of helping each other do nothing.
But, say what you will about the
general usefulness of boys, farm with
out boy would very soon come to
grief. He is always in demand. In
the first place, he is to do all the
errsnds, go to the store, the postoffice,
and to carry all sorts of messages. He
would like to have as many legs as a
wheel has spokes, and rotate about in
the same way. This be sometimes tries
to do, and people who have seen him
turning cart wheels along the side OF
the road have supposed that he was
amusing himself and idling his time
He was only trying to invent a new
mode of looomotioD, so that be could
economize his legs and do his errands
with greater dispatch. Leap frog lie
one of his methods of getting over the
ground quickly. He has a natural
genius for combining pleasure with
business.-Es.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-05-06
Her Name Was Hannah.

She was tall, solemn-faced woman
of fifty, and she stood on the mark
with folded arms and solemnly said:
"The wicked flee when no man pur.
sueth, but the righteous are as bold as
lion
His Honor was looking at the war
rant and made no reply.
1.-The wicked treBd the straight and
narrow path down to destruction she
continued.
No reply.
"But the good go up higher and
higher"
whats your name o. asked His
Honor, as he looked up.
Hannah"
Anything else 7"
'.Just plain Hannah, and on the road
to the better land
"Oh, you arei Did you take a
drink TO help you alongf'
81 never drink, and / AN one of the
lambs of the hock.'
"Officer, how was it T.
81 found her on Monroe svenue
haranguing crowd, sir, aud she was
intoxicated. They were having great
sport with her. Here is a bottle l
took from her"
"For the wind bloweth where it
listeth," observed the woman, as she
looked more solemn than ever.
'lf that isn't whiskey in that bottle
I'll resign the bench tomorrow ~ ex-
claimed His Honor, as he snuffed at it
and then took sip.
I'm the food of the life," remarked
Hannah.
"Look here, woman" said the Court
"you've got Salvation Army, bad
whisky, oratory and temperance work
all mixed up, and you are here as the
result. Will you drop your nonsense
and behave yourself in the future 7"
II will"
"Then you may go. If you have
any mission at all it is to take care o.
your home and be wife to your hus
band. Next time you come here
shall make it at least sixty days."-
Detroit Free Press.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-05-06
Odd Items.

Sage Hen is the name of a town re-
Gently founded in Oregon.
President Washington made point
of dining on Goldfish every Saturday.
1t is estimated that over 5OOOlO al
ligators are killed annually for their
skins.
London is full of unknown Ameri-
cans seeking to float bogus land and
other wildcat companies.
Mines oan now be lighted by elec.
tricity at one-half the coss of lighting
them by oil and can les.
A Fargo minister bas a son who was
born July 4, 1885, and daughter who
was born Christmas day, 1856.
The cost of postage stamps to the
government, covering everything, in-
cluding delivery, is Sc 80 per thousand
Oranges were raised this Sc ason at
Sage Pill, Cal, where the elevation is
al least three thousand feet above the
sea.
1t is reported that last year more
than l00,0O0 emigrants wen. TO the
Argentine Republic, most of them
from Italy.
japanese orange trees are being in
troduced into California. They will
give a new and excellent variety of
fruit.
Oscar Wild has grown quite obese,
and some of his friends fear that he is
suffering from fatty degeneration of
the intellect.
Brain is the name of a new Ken.
lucky editor. He can scarcely be said,
however, to fill the long felt want. as
he can on'y edit Que paper.
Some idea of the wonderful progress
nov being made in microscopical
science may be formed by the fact, as
stated by the president of the British
Association lately, that results are now
attained in this line which mathemati-
clans five years ago declared to be i'm
possible.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-05-06
A Decision that Pension Money is Liable
toSeizure as Any Other Money.

In deciding the suit of Mason Z.
Rhodes against Eben Rozelle, the Su-
preme Court settled two important
questions regarding attachments Of
pension funds, one of which arose for
the first time in Pennsylvania.
The statute provides that "no money
due or to become due to any pensioner
shall be liable 10 attachment, levy or
seizure under any legal or equitable
process whatever, but shall inure wholly
TO the benefit of such pensioner." The
two questions were, whether the money
was subject to seizure under any form
of judicial proceeding, and whether it
was liable to be taken under an attach
ment execution.
The Supreme Court decides both
questions in the affirmative. Judge
Clark says that the exemption provided
by statute will only protect the fund
whilst in the course of transmission to
the pensioner. After that it is liable
to seizure as other money"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-05-06
She Did Not Like Women Customers

81 hate women customers replied a
saleswoman in dry goods store She
had been asked plumply whether she
preferred waiting on men, and this was
her plump answer.
"Why do you prefer men :"
Because they know what they want
and do not care to keep you standing
an hour while they tumble over and
rumple up the goods on the counter.
Why, only to-day was showing a
lady black stockings. Of course they
were all the same size and quality, yet
she dragged every pair out of that box
and then wanted to see more. | hand.
ed down two more boxes, just like this
one, and then she asked if we had any
more. told her no, and then she
said might wrap up one pair for her
The lady next to me made nine differ.
ent sales to gentlemen while was fool
ing with this one woman. am going
to try to get a place in a hard ware
store, or some place where women DE-
not have to deal with women" Pitts
burg Dispatch.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-05-06
AN AND DEMOCRAT. BLOOMSBURY, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA

distribution Of the public documents Of
this commonwealth. Approved April
16.
No. 26. File Of the senate, An act
providing for the appointment of the
appraiser of mercantile and other
licenses and authorizing and requiring
the publication of the same. Approx
cd April 20.
No. 81. File Of the senate, An act re-
lating to the collection Of debts due by
boroughs in the several counties of this
commonwealth. Approved April 22.
No. 2S. File of the senate, A supple
ment to an act entitled "An act 10 es-
tablish an insurance department. APP
proved the 4th day OF April, 1878, pro-
viding for the further regulation of
foreign insurance companies and relat-
ing TO agents and others doing business
with uuauth horized insurance companies
and defining penalties therefor. Ap-
proved April 26.
No. 30. File of the house, A supple
ment to an act entitled can act to pro-
vide for the payment of existing orders
drawn by the military boards of the
several counties Of this commonwealth
approved the 25th day of May, A. ID.
1873. Approved April 26.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-05-06
A Bird Kills Itself.

An incident occurred in Salem yes
terday which likely will not be repeat
ed in a half dozen centuries. An Eng
lish sparrow was building a nest in the
porch of Mr.. E. A. Elbert's residence.
and carried striDg to the nest, and
had it partially woven in, when it at
tempted to fly, and by some means the
other end of the string became en-
tangled around its head, and held it
fast tethered by the neck. The help
less little creature became frightened
and futtered and struggled in vain to
free itself. The miniature moose only
closed tighter about its throat till finally
il dropped dead-hung by the neck as
neatly as a human hand could have
done it. The incident, which probably
has not duplicate in history, recalls
one of somewhat similar character
with regard to horse. He was graz
ing, and had on halter with short
rein dangling from his head. The
horses tail was short and stubby, and
in throwing his head around to scare off
a fly, the bride rein got hltched over
the tail. The horse finding his head
fastened, became excited, gave a sud-
den and violent jerk of his head, which
broke bis neck and resulted in instant
death Winston (N c. Sentinel.